MOCK UP ON MU (in the FUSEBOX)
Saturday 13 September @ 8.30pm - 10.00pm
- Price
- $12+bf Adult, $10+bf Concession
- Bookings
- (02) 9550 3666
- Mode
- Theatre Mode - General Admission Seating
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- On sale now @ Factory Teatre
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SESSION 2: SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 8:30 – 10PM (FUSEBOX)
Mock up on MU NSW PREMIERE
USA / 2008 / 105 mins / dir. CRAIG BALDWIN
It’s the year 2019 on the Empire of Mu – aka the moon – where L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) is building theme parks, selling crater-naming rights and beaming corporate logos back to “that prison planet called Earth.” Craig Baldwin offers with his new feature MOCK UP ON MU, his usual blend of fantasy and bizarre satiric narrative. It combines existing footage from spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror films and new footage, of real life and fictional characters. The result is a collage of stories (mostly true) about Californian post war subcultures and religions, including scientology and the ‘new age’ movement.
This combination of archival and newly-shot footage makes up a playful, exploratory trajectory through the now-mythic SoCal matrix of Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (science-fiction author-turned-cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and “mother of the New Age movement”). These intertwined tales spin out into a speculative, farcical critique of the militarization of space and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.
(San Francisco International Film Festival 2008; Revelation Film Festival 2008, CineVegas Film Festival 2008)
